On Tuesday 23 June 2009 11:58:15 Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote: > * Jiri Kosina (jkosina@xxxxxxx) wrote: > > On Mon, 22 Jun 2009, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote: > > > > Yes, with i8042.noaux it works; dmesg snippet included below. > > > > And in reply to hpa, it doesn't have a mouse port. > > > > > > I saw you also asked for a dmidecode -t system dmidecode says the > > > machine has 'No SMBIOS nor DMI entry point'. > > > > Hmm, that means that there is no easy way to identify your particular > > machine (which apparently has somewhat broken AUX i8042 port) in run-time > > for quirk to be applied. I am afraid you'll need to live with specifying > > the command-line kernel parameter on this machine. > > Yep; I'm OK with the i8042.noaux from my point of view, but it's a > bit worrying that this used to work fine. There's obviously been > a change somewhere since 2.6.18 (and as I remember from the dmesg > the keyboard and aux ports are being initialised in different orders). > (Actually I say obviously since 2.6.18 - but the 2.6.18 I tried > I think I only used the debian version - I should go back and > see if I can do a vanilla one), but this box has been running > Linux since the time it was originally bought with loads of distros > and clean kernels years ago. > > While this machine is old, the motherboard was a pretty common one > at the time. > Any chance I could get dmesg with i8042.debug with 2.6.18? There was quite a large change back then when we got rid of the polling timer in i8042. -- Dmitry -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-input" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
